Bernard shaw Quote by Nigel Rees

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a…

— Nigel Rees

“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other…

— G.K. Chesterton

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My…

— Nigel Rees

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

— James Joyce

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective…

— Richard Lederer

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to…

— Pierre Bayle

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.”

— David Nicol

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

— Jean Rostand

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

— Justin Kaplan